Newton News

The Mississippi Department of Transportation announced updates on projects in Newton, Lauderdale, and Neshoba counties.

Temp: 91.0 F Heat Index: 98 F Meridian, Key Field, MS Newton county sheriff Jackie Knight says James Stroud is facing charges in the incident.

Leland Neese, 2, sits in a pile of plush toys for sale on the porch of the Legion Hut in Decatur during a fundraiser Saturday to benefit 14-year-old Morgan Parker who is in need of organ transplants.

Myrlie Evers-Williams has spent a lifetime reminding others that her husband died while fighting for racial equality and said she was thankful for efforts to keep his legacy alive.

Now serving as Campus Police Chief, Williams worked for 11 years with the Mississippi Department of Corrections as a probation and parole officer as well as serving as a police officer in Newton.

A New York City woman says her father apparently lay dead for weeks in a minivan while police repeatedly left parking tickets on the vehicle.

Despite a caustic letter sent to Newton residents four days before the mayoral election that tried to set race relations back in the town by 40 years, David Carr was able to comfortably win the mayor's seat Tuesday with 68 percent of the vote.

Members of the Lawrence Community Club were treated to a program of favorite hymns at the May 7, 2009, meeting at the clubhouse.

The State Veterans Affairs Board has received permission from the Veterans Administration to solicit for construction of Mississippi's first state-operated cemetery for military veterans.

In any major undertaking such as the one the size of the Mississippi Veterans Memorial Cemetery , baby steps must be taken during the course of the project.

A Newton city park that was damaged during Hurricane Katrina in 2005 is getting some repairs as part of a community project.

Economic development officials in Newton say they are enthusiastic about a community growth study that will be conducted in coming weeks.

A Newton, Miss. driver was charged with DWI, improper lane use and speeding at 1:33 a.m. today, after Louisiana State Police stopped his vehicle near the intersection of U.S. 80 and Louisiana 139.

PRAYER: BY AN UNKNOWN CONFEDERATE SOLDIER I asked God for strength, that I might achieve, I was made weak, that I might humbly obey.

Hundreds of "tea parties" took place across the country Wednesday. People not happy with the spending in Washington protested in the style of The Boston Tea Party.

Everyone knows someone who has been touched by cancer in one way or another. For Pat Dean, the second year event chairperson for the Newton Relay for Life fundraising campaign, it was her sister who in 2000 succumbed to colon cancer.

Employee volunteers with the Mississippi Department of Transportation will be removing litter today from various locations in central Mississippi as part of MDOT's annual Trash Bash.

PHOTO BY PAULA MERRITT / THE MERIDIAN STAR Henry Hall mends a barbwire fence on his property that was hit early Thursday morning by a tornado in the Garlandville Community in Jasper County near the Newton County line.

The city of Newton, Miss., is hosting its annual Loose Caboose Festival through Saturday in downtown.

One of Newton County's oldest homes has a new home of its own. The McElroy-Hoye House has been located at a spot on East Church Street next to First Baptist Church for well over a hundred years.